DOJ Filing Emergency Appeal To Block Gitmo Releases

[babylonsister]

http://www.propublica.org/article/doj-were-not-releasing-gitmo-detainees-107/#When:18:01:00Z

DOJ: We’re Not Releasing Gitmo Detainees
by Eric Umansky, ProPublica - October 7, 2008 6:01 pm EDT


Earlier today we noted that a federal judge has ordered the release of 17 ethnic Uighers currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. "The moment has arrived for the court to shine the light of constitutionality on the reasons for the detention," said Federal District Judge Ricardo Urbina.

It's the first time a court has ordered the release of any Gitmo detainees.

The government has just released a statement on the decision. As expected, the Justice Department says it's filing an emergency appeal to prevent the men from going free: "The ruling presents serious national security and separation of powers concerns and raises unprecedented legal issues." The judge has ordered the government to bring the detainees to the Washington, D.C., court on Friday.

The government's statement also says the Uigher detainees "have admitted to receiving weapons training at camps in Afghanistan." This summer, a three-judge federal appeals court panel hearing the case of one of the Uighers pointedly questioned the government's evidence. As the Washington Post put it:

The judges were particularly concerned with government assertions that the evidence was reliable because it was repeated in separate documents and that officials would not have included the information if it were not dependable.

"Lewis Carroll notwithstanding, the fact the government has 'said it thrice' does not make an allegation true," wrote Judge Merrick B. Garland, quoting from Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark."

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[barbtries]

2. gawd forbid they should get out

and live to tell what they've been put through.

[Orsino]

3. "The moment has arrived"...

...and passes.

[pleah]

4. Here we go again. n/t

[noise]

5. What a stupid system

Attributable to the Bush administration's desire to get around Geneva. So they could institute a torture program and call it legal. So they could hold suspects indefinitely without proper legal review.

Nothing clever about it. Just a bunch of power hungry thugs who mask their conduct with claims of patriotism. And then are too cowardly to defend their conduct, hiding behind secret legal opinions and various legal technicalities.

[Peace Patriot]

6. My God, will this Bushwhack evil at Guantanamo Bay NEVER END?!

It is APPALLING that this Department of Injustice is still in power, seeking to go "up the chain" to Bushwhack appointed 'justices,' to enforce the most cruel, the most illegal and the most criminal actions of this hideous regime.

Have they no shame? HAVE THEY NO SHAME?!

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I love the judge's reference to "Alice in Wonderland."

Bushwhackdom is "Alice in Wonderland" on steroids. And, horribly, for the hundreds of thousands of innocent dead, and tens of thousands of innocent imprisoned and tortured, it is REAL. A REAL "rabbit hole." A REAL "Red Queen" screaming "Off with their heads!" And REAL fascists and nazis in charge of the "Mad Tea Parties."

The upside down, backwards, inside out BLACK HOLE of Bushwhackism, for real.

[Supersedeas]

7. Mukasey

[OakCliffDem]

8. This is one of the last gasps from the Bush Administration

Bush has lost, and he knows it.

The country is shifting back to being Liberal like it should be.

Obama is going to win, and there is nothing the Republicans can do about it